Both outside and within a [[profession]] such as [[law]] there are
[[humor|jokes]] which serve to poke fun at the absurdities of the profession. Such humor is called [[professional humor]]. Jokes tend to exploit popular stereotypes about the profession in question: lawyer jokes might present them as lacking in ethics, scientist jokes might play up their lack of worldly wisdom and [[accountancy]] jokes might address "creative
accounting". A speaker at a professional seminar will often break the ice
with a bit of professonal humor.
Professional humor must be distinguished from [[in-jokes]]s, those which can only be appreciated only a member of a specific profession.
==External links and References==
* ''Profession jokes'', http://www.workjoke.com/projoke.htm. A large collection of jokes about professions: programmers, mathematicians, physicists, engineers, doctors, lawyers, accountants, psychiatrists etc.
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